Lyrics Golden Rule Blues - Bessie Smith

I can't understand, I can't keep my man

Won't somebody please find him if you can

Tell him this for me

Give me back my key, I let him have five years ago

Bring me back my key, I let him have five years ago

You don't know how to use it, you don't need it no more

Looked for you at home, you never can be found

That's the reason why you can't carry my key around

Pretty papa, you must learn the rules

Go to work every mornin' like all the other men do

Bring me your pay after your work every day

That's the only way you can make your pretty mama stay

Writer(s): B Smith

Album The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3

date of release

22-10-1992

1 Red Mountain Blues
2 Golden Rule Blues
3 Lonesome Desert Blues
4 Them "Has Been" Blues
5 Squeeze Me
6 What's the Matter Now
7 I Want Every Bit of It
8 Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town - 78rpm Version
9 The Gin House Blues
10 Money Blues
11 Baby Doll
12 Hard Driving Papa
13 Lost Your Head Blues
14 Hard Time Blues
15 Honey Man Blues
16 One and Two Blues
17 Young Woman's Blues
18 Preachin' the Blues
19 Back Water Blues
20 After You've Gone
21 Alexander's Ragtime Band
22 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
23 Trombone Cholly
24 Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
25 Them's Graveyard Words
26 Hot Springs Blues
27 Sweet Mistreater
28 Lock and Key
29 Mean Old Bedbug Blues
30 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
31 Homeless Blues
32 Looking for My Man Blues
33 Dyin' by the Hour
34 Foolish Man Blues
35 Thinking Blues
36 Pickpocket Blues
37 I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama
38 I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave

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